British couple awarded £5,000 after falling ill at Sharm el-Sheikh resort where 'birds and cockroaches swarmed food' Cristian Magana Salgueiro and Mark Trevelyan stayed at Oriental Resort Mr ...

Areas within Sharm el Sheikh that are exempt from the ban include the airport and the tourist developments of Sharm el Maya, Hadaba, Naama Bay, Sharks Bay and Nabq.

Popular holiday destination Sharm el-Sheikh now stands looking like an abandoned "ghost town" after the suspected terrorist attack which left 224 dead. The Sinai plane crash las month grounded ...

EGYPTIAN resort Sharm El Sheikh, the once bustling holiday paradise that attracted thousands of Brits a year, now looks like a ghost town. The Red Sea resort is surrounded by a ring of steel after … ...

Sharm el-Sheikh was a popular destination with UK tourists until all UK flights were banned in November 2015 following the bombing of a Russian Metrojet airliner. Security has now been improved.

At 5.50am local time on 31 October 2015, Metrojet flight 9268 departed from Sharm el Sheikh airport, destination St Petersburg. On board were 17 children, 200 adult passengers and seven crew.

Airlines and tour operators are selling cheap last-minute flights and half-price holidays to Sharm el-Sheikh – even though an estimated 15,000 British holidaymakers are still stranded in the resort.

Read our privacy notice. Flights from the UK can now fly direct to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after a four-year ban has been lifted by the government today.